SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-23-010622 to Netcapital Inc. (NCPL)
Netcapital Inc.
Date: Sept. 26, 2023 · CIK: 0001414767 · Accession: 0000000000-23-010622
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United States securities and exchange commission logo
September 26, 2023
Martin Kay
Chief Executive Officer
Netcapital Inc.
1 Lincoln Street
Boston, MA 02111
Re:Netcapital Inc.
Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed September 11, 2023
File No. 333-273158
Dear Martin Kay:
We have reviewed your amended registration statement and have the following
comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we
may better understand your disclosure.
Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing the
requested information. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and
circumstances or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your
response.
After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and the information you
provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments. Unless we note
otherwise, our references to prior comments are to comments in our August 23, 2023 letter.
Amendment No. 2 to Form S-1 filed September 11, 2023
Proposed ATS Relationship, page 38
1.Revise your disclosure to clearly address the following issues related to your involvement
in the secondary trading market that you intend to make available to your CF Portal
Investors who have purchased securities through your funding portal:
•State whether NetCapital or its employees will perform any matching of trades, or
will have any visibility into the actions by NetCapital CF Portal Investors in
accessing and completing trades on the ATS.
•State whether NetCapital CF Portal Investors will pay fees to either Templum or
NetCapital to access the system, or to complete a trade. To the extent that NetCapital
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CF Portal Investors will pay fees to Templum to list or trade their securities in the
secondary market, clarify if NetCapital will receive a portion of any fees collected by
Templum.
2.Revise this section to clearly explain the relationship between Templum and NetCapital,
and the relationship between NetCapital CF Portal Investors and Templum. Revise to
state whether NetCapital or its CF Portal Investors have the ability to perform tasks
identified in your license with Templum. For instance, clarify whether NetCapital or the
NetCapital CF Portal Investors have the ability to undertake the actions/access the
information in the Secondary Trading - Continuous Market portion of the Technology
Services Outline and Descriptions (Schedule IV of the Templum License) as included as
Exhibit 10.1 to your 8-K filed on January 6, 2023.
3.Revise to state whether the use of the Templum ATS to facilitate trades in securities of
NetCapital CF Portal Investors is limited to securities acquired through purchases from
your CF Portal.
4.State whether NetCapital will have any obligation to conduct know your customer, or
other compliance efforts for your CF Portal Investors in order for those investors to use
the Templum ATS.
Transactions with Related Parties, page 56
5.We note your disclosure to our prior comment 13 and re-issue. In particular, we note that
you have not identified the director of one of your subsidiaries who received 200 thousand
shares. Refer to Section 229.404(a) of Regulation S-K.
6.Revise the disclosure to state the interest rate on the note receivable from Deuce Drone
LLC, and state whether the notes are performing under their terms. Provide similar
information on the notes that you owe to Mr. Geary. See Item 404 of Regulation S-K.
Please contact Madeleine Mateo at 202-551-3465 or Christian Windsor, Legal Branch
Chief, at 202-551-3419 with any questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Finance
cc: Gregory R. Carney, Esq.